I was getting all nostalgic the other day, remembering my first adventures in an online RPG, MUDs. If you don't know what MUDs are, they were text based online RPGs, long before Ultima Online.

I started to remember the MUD I played on and why I specifically loved that one, over all the others -- it allowed "Multiplaying". Only a few (out of hundreds) allowed this. You can still search the MUD Connector and filter your search by "Allows Multi-play" (http://www.mudconnect.com/adv_search.html).

This meant you could play multiple characters at the same time in the game. Sounds a lot like Multiboxing, huh?

You had to use a special MUD client called TinTin++:

http://tintin.sourceforge.net/manual/session.php

Syntax: #session {name} {address} {port}


Will start a session with the given name, connecting to the specified address and port.


Example: #ses twinkie neverneverland.bla 1234
Ofcourse you'd have to fill in something else if you actually want to go somewhere. The Mud connector offers a large searchable list of muds.


Other options are #session + and - to go to the next or previous session. This only works if you are multiplaying. #session <number> activates the session corresponding to the given number.
That's when it hit me... I've been multiboxing for almost 20 years! Scary